News archive from 13 March 2015

Swatch, the world's largest watchmaker unveiled its riposte to Apple's smartwatch.
It plans to put cheap programmable chips in watches that will let wearers from China to Chicago make payments with a swipe of the wrist.
Swatch Group will start...

Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed that the Jupiter-orbiting moon Ganymede has an ocean beneath its icy surface, raising the prospects for life, Nasa has revealed.
The finding resolves a mystery about the largest moon in the...

Two years after scientists cooked up the first test tube beef hamburger, researchers in Israel are working on an even trickier recipe: the world's first lab-grown chicken.
Professor Amit Gefen, a bioengineer at Tel Aviv University, has begun a...

"Our caliph, God save him, has accepted the pledge of loyalty of our brothers of Boko Haram so we congratulate Muslims and our jihadi brothers in West Africa," Islamic State spokesman Abu Mohammad al-Adnani said in an audio message,...

Gunmen attacked the army checkpoint at al-Mahajer area south of Arish late on Thursday evening, before fleeing the scene, the sources said. The wounded were moved to a military hospital in the city.
The attacks were concentrated in North Sinai,...

YES, it's Red Nose Day, the massive nationwide fund-raising epic for Comic Relief.
And, all over Derbyshire, children and adults will be doing their bit to join in the fun.
At one Derby school, children are opting to wear their clothes inside out and...

No officers will be disciplined after a probe into how GMP failed victims of child sexual exploitation in Rochdale.
The force probe into the affair has taken FOUR years to publish. It covered botched criminal investigations in 2008 and 2010.
Seven...

MADONNA has revealed she dated murdered ‘gangsta’ rapper Tupac Shakur.
The Living For Live singer let slip as she admitted she was mad during a 1994 appearance on The Late Show With David Letterman.
“I was in a weird mood that day,” she said. “I was...

After beating Manchester United at Old Trafford on Monday to reach the FA Cup semi-finals, and with seven wins in their last eight Premier League games, Arsenal are looking good on the pitch.
And three of their attacking stars have shown that they...

Jenson Button, newly wearing a wedding ring, can afford to smile even if some of the rituals of his long career in Formula One will not be repeated at Sunday’s Australian Grand Prix.
Three times he has won around Albert Park. There is little chance of...

ECCLESHALL has been named as one of the best towns to set up home in the Midlands.
The Sunday Times newspaper is creating a list of the top 50 towns and suburbs in the UK to live as part of an annual supplement.
And today organisers have revealed that...

"I added a bit of black humour at the end that might have been a mistake," the veteran diplomat and former foreign minister, Roy Chaderton, said of his controversial remarks earlier in the week.
"If I upset well-intentioned people, I...

Formula 1 teams need to think more broadly when it comes to financing, the head of the Williams racing team has warned. Teams that rely just on their F1 income are more exposed to the "vagaries of motor racing", said Williams Group chief...

It is calculated monthly for options and every three months for futures. The official settlement price will be announced after the market closes on Friday. (Reporting by Hideyuki Sano; Editing by Chris Gallagher)

In sOMe respects Jeremy Clarkson is your archetypal Yorkshireman. down the years he has turned calling a spade a spade into an art form, while he clearly does not give two hoots about upset- ting anyone who doesn't share his point of view.
However...